Immiserization

//ɪˌmɪzəɹaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization. countable, uncountable

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immiseration

Etymology

From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ization (suffix denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something, forming nouns), a translation of German Verelendung (“immiseration, impoverishment”).

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